In 2005, the phrase “the soft bigotry of low expectations” was coined in an attempt to explain the frustrating phenomenon of continued educational underperformance despite growing federal investment in education. The idea is straightforward: well-intentioned policy decisions that lower both…

CommonWell Health Alliance, a group of 11 health IT companies focused on fostering data exchange among healthcare stakeholders, has announced an important step toward more robust data exchange happening this summer.

Payers are increasingly offering telemedicine services in an effort to reduce unnecessary hospital visits and overall healthcare costs.

A coalition of electronic health record vendors is pressuring CMS and the ONC to enact a proposed rule that would give providers additional flexibility in attesting to meaningful use during the 2014 reporting year.

In April, released patents showed Google was working on a 'smart' contact lens with the ability to monitor glucose levels in wearers' tears, aiding diabetes management. Now, Google has partnered with the eyewear division at pharmaceutical firm Novartis to make…

Using electronic health records to both select trial participants and track their progress could be cheaper and more effective than a traditional clinical trial structure, according to a study in Health Technology Assessment.

In 2008, just 7 percent of physicians in the U.S. used e-prescribing software. Now, about 70 percent do, according to a new report from the ONC.

The average percentage of physicians e-prescribing through an electronic health record increased tenfold from December 2008 to April 2014, jumping from 7 percent to 70 percent, according to a data brief from the ONC.

More than half of healthcare providers — 55 percent — are using a commercial practice management software, but 63 percent of those users are looking to replace that software, according to a report from practice management comparison site Software Advice.

When comparing types and prevalence of dispensing errors for electronically transmitted prescriptions versus paper prescriptions, e-prescriptions did not necessarily result in fewer prescription errors, according to a study in BMJ Quality & Safety.